Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt
4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt discuss books by Elizabeth Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James. From July 1998.
4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Orlando Figes and Michael Schmidt discuss books by Elizabeth Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James. From July 1998.
Complete Poems Published by Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics
Washington Square by Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Classics.
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